I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.